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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Drawing our own pattern, take measurements of our body ... New Girl's Sew Along

So we started with the search for the perfect pattern! That basic pattern that we will always have a special place because it is what you'll use again and again to make all the changes necessary to reach that dream of owning garments ... And of course, the first step to achieve this is to take our measures, but arrived here, I want to point out a few things so that everything goes well from the beginning, to take measures is something that must be done thoroughly ... You really have to be honest with yourself and not take the measures too tight. If your waist is X and you decide to tighten the tape measure to lower the measure, the only thing you will get is that the final garment strangle you in that area and you do wrinkles and pouches everywhere ... note that these measures are going to take your garment to a successful end, so take your measurements over your body, with appropriate underwear without pressing. Another thing to consider is that we work with halves, ie ... to draw the pattern front and back, need half the contour we have measured, since we will draw only one half of the front and middle of the back, this is to start ... so when we write down our measures on a page, we'll do it the way I'll show below, you'll see that it's easy!The measures that we are taking now are the following ... I'm going to do with my dear assistant Miss Mercromina because it is difficult to take photos while I measure myself .. but this will give you an idea ...

First picture: Back width, you should measure the width of your back from one armhole to the other, from this measure is taken half, I have 38 centimeters, so my back width measurement is 19 centimeters. Second photo: Chest measurement, you must measure the contour in the widest part of your chest, loosely, I measure 96 centimeters, the resulting measure adds two centimeters for clearance, so my measurement is 98 centimeters, this final measure we will use a quarter, then I'm going to use 5.24 centimeters.

First picture: Neck size, this is measured loosely around the neck, my neck is 41 centimeters, this measure will use the sixth, then 41 divided by 6, my final measure is 6.8 centimeters.Second photo: Waist size, waist measure, mine 80 centimeters, use this as a quarter, then my final measurement is 20 centimeters.

First Photo: Height of side, this is measured from under the arm to the waist, this measure is used whole mine is 23 centimeters. Second photo: High shoulder, measure from the tip of the shoulder to the waist from the back, this measure is used whole, mine is 40 centimeters.

First Photo: Height of chest dart, is measured from the birth neck up to the most prominent part of the chest (to the nipple), this measure is used whole mine is 25 centimeters. Second photo: Length dart chest is measured from the side to the most prominent part of the chest (to the nipple), also used whole mine is 12 centimeters. With this we have enough to make our pattern front and back, so this is what we have so far and what we will work ...